Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair. Thomas Merton
The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
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Fulton J. Sheen
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble...
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Bono
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Francis Of Assisi
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non- Catholic), 3:16
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John Apostle
To have understanding is not to be religious
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Sunday Adelaja
More Quotes By Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then...
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully...
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it...
